Question: Why did Ancient Rome Fall?
• Economic factors: inflation, disruption of trade, gold/silver drain, unemployment, gap rich & poor
• Political factors: corruption, violence in politics, division of the empire,
• Social factors: disloyalty, contast rich and poor
• Rise for Christianity (Gibbon)
• Urban Decay
• Military Factors: low funding, lack loyalty, problems recruiting
• Barbarian invasions: shocking empire in waves
• Combination of many nternal factors
• Combinationt of internal And external factors
• No fall at all but a transformation